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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/373874885 Title: The street was mine : white masculinity and urban space in hardboiled fiction and film noir Author: Megan E Abbott Publisher: New York : Palgrave, 2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0312294816 9780312294816 OCLC:373874885

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The street was mine : white masculinity and urban space in hardboiled fiction and film noir

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The street was mine : white masculinity and urban space in hardboiled fiction and film noir

Author:	Megan E Abbott
Publisher:	New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This work considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. It looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler ("The Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Megan E Abbott Find more information about:
ISBN:	0312294816 9780312294816
OCLC Number:	373874885
Description:	246 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	Introduction 'I Can Feel Her': The White Male as Hysteric in James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler 'Another Soft-Voiced Big Man I Had Strangely Liked': Containing White Male Desire The Woman in White: Race-ing and Erace-ing in Cain and Chandler 'Nothing You Can't Fix': Hardboiled Fiction's Hollywood Makeover 'The Strict Domain of Whitey': Chester Himes's Coup Epilogue Appendix Bibliography
Responsibility:	Megan E. Abbott.

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'Although more revisionist than feminist, this book does damage to white boys.' - A. Hirsch, Choice

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